It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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